Research | Literature homework help

1. Choose an organization, company or agency that suffered a cyber-related attack within the past 5 years.

2. Discuss in your paper the specifics of the attack and how it negatively affected the organization. Make sure you site your source and use in-text citations.

3. Use a table, figure, or any other method to outline or display the type/s of attack/s that occurred and what security controls potentially may have failed the organization.

4. Articulate in your paper what the group believes could have prevented the reported cyber-attack, and, specifically relate this to two or more learning objectives from our course. Note: I will be paying close attention to this part of the research paper! Therefore, fully discuss this portion in your writings. Use tables/graphs, etc., as necessary.

5. Continually tie your findings to the learning objectives of our course. Therefore, saying this, our textbook will be one of your sources to be used for this assignment.

Things to do:

1. Find and review articles, online books, and other information to use for background and specific information for your research paper.
2. Write the paper with this general template:
3. Summarize and then describe the organization/company; including details of the cyber-related incident
4. Critically analyze your research topic; synthesize findings from your sources and tie them to our textbook
5. Propose what security controls, processes or mechanisms that could have prevented the cyber-related incident
6. Conclude your research paper with lessons learned by each group member from lessons learned from this class, your research and your group’s proposed prevention recommendation.